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Authors: David Schiff
Haden, Charlie
Haile Selassie
Hajdu, David
Haley, Bill, Bill Haley and the Comets, “Rock Around the Clock,”
Hall, Adelaide
Hallock, Ted
Hamilton, Chico
Hamilton, Jimmy
Hamlet
(Shakespeare)
Hamm, Charles
Hammerstein, Oscar II, “Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine,” “Do-re-mi,”
The King and I
,
Oklahoma!
“Old Man River,”,
Show Boat
Hammond, John
handbell, West African
Handy, W. C., “Aunt Hagar's Blues,” “St. Louis Blues,”
Hansel and Gretel
Hardwick, Otto
Harlem, and history, as “Mongrel Manhattan,” and religious music
Harlem Renaissance
“Harmonie du soir” (Baudelaire)
Harmonielehre
(Schoenberg)
harmony, and atonality, and Bartók, and blues, in “Clothed Woman,”; and Debussy, in “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,”, and jazz, and modes, and “monotonality,” “plagal cadence,” and Ravel, in “Satin Doll,”, and Schoenberg, and Shostakovich, tonal harmony
Harney, Ben, “You've Been a Good Old Wagon But You Done Broke Down,”
Harris, Charles K., “After the Ball,”
Harris, Roy
Harris, Will, “Sweet Sue Just You,”
Harrison, Lou
Hart, Lorenz, “The Girl Friend,”; “I Didn't Know What Time It Was,”
Jumbo
, “My Funny Valentine,” “My Heart Stood Still,” “My Romance,” “There's a Small Hotel,” “This Can't Be Love,”
Hartleben, Otto Erich
Hartmann, Thomas von
Harvard Dictionary of Music
Hauer, J. M.
Hawkins, Coleman
Hawkins, Erick
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Haydn,
The Creation
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hellfighters Band
Henderson, Fletcher, “Casa Loma Stomp,” “Chinatown,” Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, “The Stampede,”, “Wrappin' It Up,”
Henderson, Horace, “Hotter than âell,”
Henderson, Luther
Hendricks, John
Hendrix, Jimi
Henry V
(Shakespeare)
Herald Tribune
Herbert, Victor
Herman, Woody, band of, “Goosey Gander,”
Herman McCoy Choir
heroism
Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy,
Porgy and Bess
Hibbler, Al
Hibbs, Leonard
Higgins, Billy
Higginson, Henry
Hillyer, Lonnie
Hindemith, Paul, and harmony, and history
âmusic: Suite 1922, Symphonic Metamorphoses
Hines, Earl
Hinton, Matt
history, and
Appalachian Spring
, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and
Harlem
, and
New World A-Comin
,', and Second World War, written by music
Hodeir, André
Hodes, Art
Hodges, Johnny, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and
con amore
, and Concerts of Sacred Music, death of, and His Orchestra, as “Johnny Lily Pons Hodges,”; and melody; and rhythm, “Squatty Roo,” and
Such Sweet Thunder
Holbein, Hans the Younger
Holder, Geoffrey
Holiday, Billie
Holliger, Heinz
Holly, Buddy
Hollywood, and history, Hollywood Democratic Committee,
See also
movies/movie theaters
“The Holy City,”
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Horne, Lena
Horowitz, Vladimir
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Howard, John Tasker
Howard, Joseph, “Hello! Ma Baby,” “Hello My Baby!”
Howard Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
Howland, John
“How Long Has This Been Going On,”
Hubbard, Freddie
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Spike
“Hunger Artist” (Kafka)
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hutcherson, Bobby
Huysmans, J. K.
Â
I Ching
“Impression III (concert)” (Kandinsky painting)
impressionism
Independent Citizen's Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
instinct
“I Ride an Old Paint,”
Irving Bunton Singers
Ives, Charles,
Central Park in the Dark
,
Unanswered Questions
,
Universe Symphony
Â
Jackson, Mahalia
Jackson, Quentin “Butter,”
“Jack the Bear,”
Jacobs, Paul
Jarrett, Keith
Jazz: A History
(Tirro)
Jazz Harmony at the Piano
(Mehegan)
jazz/jazz musicians, and
Appalachian Spring
, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and blues, and “Carolina Shout,”, and classical composers, and “Cotton Tail,”, free jazz, and harmony, and history, jazz ballad, jazz head, “jazzman as confessional poet,” jazz modernism, and “Madame Zajj,” and melody, modal jazz, “molecule of jazz,” and “My Romance,” and religious music, and rhythm; and “Run Old Jeremiah,”; and “Satin Doll,”, and sex/race, and
Such Sweet Thunder
, “sus” chord, symphonic jazz, and tone colors, “voicing,”
Jazz on a Summer's Day
(documentary film)
Jeffries, Herb
Jenkins, Freddy
Les Jeunes Voix
Jewish Americans
jitterbug
John Alldis Choir
Johnson, James P., and history, and melody; and rhythm
âmusic: “Carolina Shout,”, “Charleston,” “The Dream,”
Harlem Symphony
,
Yamekraw
, “You've Got to Be Modernistic,”
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Lonnie
Johnson, Manzie
John Wesley A.M.E. Zion (Washington, D.C.)
Jolson, Al, “Avalon,”
Jones, A.M.
Jones, James Earl
Jones, LeRoi
Jones, Wallace
Jonny Spielt Auf
Joplin, Scott; “Entertainer,” “Maple Leaf Rag,”
Joyce, James
Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare)
jungle music
Â
Kafka, Franz
Kallman, Chester
Kandinsky, Wassily,
Der gelbe Klang
Kárpáti, János
Keats, John
Keller, Ruby
Kelly, Wynton
Kenton, Stan, “Artistry in Rhythm,” band of
Kentucky Club Orchestra
Kern, Jerome, “Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine,” “Old Man River,”,
Show Boat
, “They Didn't Believe Me,”
King, B. B.
King, Martin Luther, “I have a dream” speech
“King Porter Stomp,”
Kirstein, Lincoln, Ballet Caravan
klangfarbenmelodie
Klein, Fritz Heinrich
klezmer music; “Der Shtiler Bulgar,”
Klimt, Gustave
Kodály, Zoltán
Koehler, Ted, “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,”
“Ko-Ko,”
Kokoschka
Kolodin, Irving
Korean War
Kosma, Joseph, “Autumn Leaves,”
Kostal, Irwin
Kott, Jan
Koussevitzky
Kronos Quartet
Krupa, Gene
Ku Klux Klan
Â
Ladzekpo, Alfred
Lalo, Edouard,
Le Roi d'Ys
Lambert, Constant
Lang, Pearl
Lange, Arthur
LaRocca, Nick
La Touche, John,
Ballad for Americans
Laurents, Arthur
Lawrence, Gertrude
Layton, Turner Jr., “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,”
Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter)
Lew, Barzillai
Lewis, David Levering
Lewis, John
Lewis, Morgan, “How High the Moon,”
Library of Congress
Liebich, Louise
Lincoln Center
Lindsay, Vachel
Lisle, Leconte de
Liszt;
Années de pélerinage
; “Orage,”
Transcendental Etudes
Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti,”
Lock, Graham
Locke, Alain
Lockspeiser
Loesser, Frank, “Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year,”
Logan, Arthur
Lomax, Alex
Lomax, John
Lombardo, Guy
Long, Marguerite
Longshaw, Fred
Loring, Eugene
Louvre
Louÿs,
Pierre, Chansons de Bilitis
love, in “Black and Tan Fantasy,” in “Black Beauty,”, in “The Blue Belles of Harlem,”
con amore
, in
Lyric Suite
; in
La Mer
, and jazz, in
Perfume Suite
, and race relations, in “Reminiscing in Tempo,”; in
Such Sweet Thunder
, in “Warm Valley,”.
See also
sexuality
Lowell, Robert
Lunceford Band, “Swinging Uptown,” “White Heat,”
Â
Macbeth
(Shakespeare)
Macero, Ted
Mack, Cecil, “Charleston,”
Maeterlinck
Mahler, Gustav, archives of, death of
âmusic: Adagietto,
Das Lied von der Erde
, “Resurrection” Symphony, Second Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Third Symphony
Malcolm X
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Mancini, Henry
Marrow, Esther
Marsalis, Wynton,
Congo Square
La Marseillaise
Martin, George
Marx, Chico
Matisse, Henri
May, Billy
Mazia, Marjorie
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarty, Henry
McEntree, Edgar
McHugh, Jimmy
McHugh, Mary
McPartland, Marian
McPhail, Jimmy
“Meet the Flintstones,”
Mehegan, John
melody, in “Black Beauty,”; and blues, and classical composers, in “Day Dream,”, in “Freddie Freeloader,”; in “Mood Indigo,”, in “Koko,”, “melody gap,” in “Prelude to a Kiss,”; and sex/race, in “Sophisticated Lady,”; and “standards,”; in “St. Louis Blues,”, supermelody, in “U.M.M.G.,”
Melody Maker
Mendelssohn, Felix
Mercer, Johnny
Merman, Ethel
Messiaen, Olivier,
Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
, “Louange à l'Immortalité de Jésus,” “Modes de valeurs et d'intensité,”
Quartet for the End of Time
,
Vingt Regards
Methodist Error
(Watson)
Metropolitan Opera House
A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Shakespeare)
Miley, Bubber
Milhaud,
La création du monde
Miller, Glenn, “Tiger Rag,”
Mills, Belwin
Mills, Florence
Mills, Irving
Mills Music
Mingus, Charles;
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
;
Blues and Roots
, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,”, “Saturday Night Prayer Meeting,”
minstrel shows/style
Mitchell, Arthur
Mitropoulos, Dmitri
modernism, “agony of modern music,” and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and harmony, and history, jazz modernism, and love,
and melody, neomodernism, and rhythm, and tone colors, turning point of, “ultramodernists,”
Modern Jazz Quartet
Modern Music
modes, Aeolian, Dorian, Lochrian, Lydian, Mixolydian, modal jazz, Phrygian
Monet, Claude
Monk, Thelonious, “Blue Monk,” “Epistrophy,” “In Walked Bud,” “Misterioso,”, “Rhythm-a-ning,” “Straight, No Chaser,”
Monterey Jazz Festival
Morris, William
Morrow, Edward R.
Morton, Jelly Roll, “King Porter Stomp,”, “Maple Leaf Rag,” and rhythm
Morton, John Fass
Moten, Bennie, Bennie Moten Orchestra, “Moten Swing,”, “Toby,”
movies/movie theaters, and history, and love, and “Method” style,.
See also titles of individual films
Mozart
Murphy, Dudley
Murray, Albert
Musée d'Orsay
Music for Moderns concerts
Music Is My Mistress
(Ellington)
Mussorgsky,
Pictures at an Exhibition
My People
(musical)
“My Reverie,”
Â
NAACP
Nancarrow, Conlon
Nance, Ray, and
Black, Brown and Beige
Nanton, Joe, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and “talking trombone,” and tone colors
National Ellington Week
Nazis
NBC
NBC Symphony
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” (Hughes)
neoclassicism
Neue Sachlichkeit
Nevin, Ethelbert
The New Leader
New Musical Resources
(Cowell)
New Orleans music/musicians, and archives, and history, and rhythm, and tone colors
New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Newport Jazz Festival
New World a-Comin
' (Ottley)
The New Yorker
New York Philharmonic
New York Public Library
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Times
,
Magazine
Nichols, Roger
Nicholson, Stuart
Nietzsche, and Dionysus
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Nineteenth Street Baptist (Washington, D.C.)
Noble, Ray, “Cherokee,”
nocturnes
Noguchi, Isamu
“No Red Songs for Me” (Ellington)
Norman, Jessye
notation
“Note on Commercial Theatre” (Hughes)
numerology
Â
occult
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” (Keats)
“Ode to the West Wind” (Shelley)
Odets, Clifford
O'Donnell, May
O'Hara, Frank
Oliver, Joe, “Dipper Mouth Blues,”, “West End Blues,”
O'Meally, Robert G.
Omnibus (television program)
O'Neill, Eugene
Only Yesterday
(Allen)
opera, and
Black, Brown and Beige
, and history, and melody, and tone colors, and xylophone,
See also names of individual composers
orientalism
Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB): “Livery Stable Blues,”, “Tiger Rag,”